**Lead Engineer – Role & Responsibilities**
As a Lead Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and architectural direction while remaining hands-on in building scalable, resilient, and production-grade systems. You will play a critical role in shaping engineering standards, driving modernization, and enabling intelligent, AI-powered capabilities across the platform.
**Key Responsibilities**

+ **Technology Evaluation & Innovation**
+ Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to architectural decision-making, considering alignment with Target’s technical ecosystem, long-term maintainability, scalability, and total cost of ownership.
+ Lead research initiatives and proof-of-concept efforts to validate new tools, frameworks, and platforms before adoption.
+ **Architecture & Engineering Excellence**
+ Design and own scalable, secure, high-performance architectures.
+ Establish and evolve engineering standards and best practices in complex or ambigu...